Window.



- P. D. GORRIGAN.

WINDOW. APPLIOATION FILED NOV. 4, 1907.

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Witmooo PATRICK D. CORRIGAN, OF WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK.

WINDOW.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led November 4, 1907.

Patented Oct. 11, 1910.

Serial No. 400,546.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PATRICK D. CORRIGAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vellsville, in the county of Allegany and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Windows, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to windows, the primary object of the invention being to provide a window of such construction as a whole that in addition to the ability to slide the sashes up and down in the usual manner, provision is made for swinging the sashes laterally out of the window frame or casing so as to give complete access to both sides of both sashes for cleaning, repairing, painting and the like.

A further object of the invention is to provide in connection with means for accomplishing the object above pointed out, means for securely holding the sashes in their normal operative posit-ions and at the same time preventing undue rattling of the sashes in any position to which they may be adjusted.

lith the above and other detailed objects in view, the nature of which will more fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a view in elevation of a window complete embodying the present invention showing the sashes closed and a section of one of the stops removed. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section therethrough on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal cross section thereof on the line 8 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing one of the sashes pushed upward beyond its normal position and the other sash swung inward on its jointed connection. Fig. 5 is a vertical transverse section on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section on the line 6-6 of Fig. 4. Fig. 7 is an enlarged detail horizontal cross section through one side of the window frame and one of the sashes. Fig. 8 is a detail. perspective view of the removable portion of one of the props. Fig. 9 is a similar view of the removable portion of one of the parting beads.

Referring to the drawings, I have illustrated a window frame or casing embodying the side bars or uprights 1, the sill 2 and the cap 8.

In carrying out the present invention, the cap 23 is divided to form a slot or way 4 up through which the lower sash may be pushed in the manner shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the upward movement of said sash being limited by an overlying horizontal stop 5 in the form of a bar extending across between and connecting upright cap extensions 6, the stop 5 being in a sufficiently elevated position to allow the lower rail 7 of the lower sash to be raised sufficiently to permit the upper sash to be swung laterally inward from beneath the raised lower sash, 8 designating the upper sash, 9 the lower sash.

In order to provide for swinging said sashes outward laterally as indicated in Figs. 4 and 6, portions of the window stops 10 are made removable as best illustrated in Figs. 4, 5, 6 and 8. To accomplish this each stop is made of sectional construction, comprising a fixed section to which the numeral 10 is applied, and a removable section embodying a long or body member 11 and a short or foot member 12 preferably connected by a hinge as shown at 13, while the upper end of the removable section is beveled or pointed as indicated at 14 to engage an undercut shoulder 15 at the lower extremity of the fixed section 10 of the stop.

In order to secure the removable section of the stop in place, said section, as shown in Fig. S, is provided with projecting headed studs 16 which are insertible through keyhole slots 17 in plates 18 secured to the window casing as shown in Fig. 5. It will be noted also that the narrow portions of said keyhole slots are inclined inward from the vertical so that when the removable section of the window stop is associated with said plates and pushed upward, the shanks of the studs 16 will be acted upon by said inclined portions and the stop section forced inward at the same time that it is forced upward thus causing it to be brought into close relation to the window sash to prevent rattling of the same by procuring a snug it. To take out the removable section of the window stop, the hinged foot member 12 thereof which rests at its lower end against the window sill is swung outward, which allows the upper or body member 11 to be drawn downward and moved out of engagement with the slotted plates 18. In like manner each parting bead is provided with a removable section comprising members 19 and 20 jointed preferably by a hinge as shown at 2l so that by swinging the foot member 20 outward on its hinged connection with the body member both members of the removable section of the parting bead may be taken out of place in the window casing or frame. While the stops 10 are applied to the inner faces of the side bars 1 of the window frame, the parting beads are as usual seated in upright grooves 100 therein. As above described, the stops cannot be removed from the frame until their foot members 12 are swung inward and t-hey are bodily moved in oblique direction to disengage the studs from the key-hole slots; but the removable sections of the beads can have no such headed studs or oblique movement, and hence I have devised means for retaining them in their grooves 100 as described below.

Each of the sliding sashes has one of its side bars made in sectional form as best illustrated in Fig. 7, or in other words, one side bar of the sash comprises an inner or main section 22 and an outer section 23, the said sections being hinged together at the inner corner of the section 23 as shown at 24 so as to swing on a vertical axis relatively to each other. rlie outer section 23 is held between one of the stops and the parting bead as shown in F ig. 7, while the hinge 2i is located out far enough to allow the sash proper to be swung laterally inward around the stop to the position indicated in Figs. 4: and 6 to allow the window sash to be washed, painted or repaired, as the case may be.

Under the preferred embodiment of this invention, the section 23 of the window sash is of dovetail form as shown in Fig. 7, while the adjacent inner faces of the window stop and parting bead (and surely the latter) are correspondingly undercut or dovetailed thus retaining the section 23 in place while permitting the same to slide up and down. This view also shows how the rear portion of the bead is rectangular and fills the groove 100, while the dovetailing of its exposed portion 190 produces upright shoulders 191 flush with the inner faces of the side bars 1 of the window frame and against which the outer corners of the sashes abut. Hence the sashes hold the beads in the grooves 100, and while there the beads hold the sashes against displacement and their dovetailed portions hold the sash-sections 23 from other than vertical movement. However, when both sashes are raised above the removable sections of the beads, the foot members of the latter may be swung outward as above described and the entire sections withdrawn from the grooves by moving them bodily toward the center of the window. As an additional holding means, hinges 25 may be secured to the outer face of the section 23 .with their pintles Aat the outer corners thereof and the outer leaf of each hinge is provided with a headed stud 26, the shank of which works in a slotted guide 27 secured to the window casing, said 'guide consisting preferably of metal strips arranged at opposite sides of the path of travel of the stud 26 so as to form a guideway between the adjacent -edges of said plates, the window casing being provided with a vertical groove or recess 28 in which the heads of the studs 26 work, as clearly indicated in Fig. 7. When the window stop and parting bead sections above described are bot-h removed, the window sash may be swung on either of the hinged connections 24 or 25. It will also be noted that the removable sections of the window stops and parting beads extend to a point above the top of each of the sashes when lowered so as to make ample provision for swinging said sashes laterally on their hinged connections in the manner described.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed as new is 1. A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead consisting of a body member and a foot- 'meinber hinged together, the rear portion of the bead filling said groove and its exposed portion being dovetailed so as to produce shoulders liush with the inner face of said side bar; combined with sashes whose side rails are shaped to lit against said exposed portions and shoulders, and removable stops.

2. A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead comprising an upper section fixed in said groove and undercut at its lower end and a removable lower section beveled at its upper end and consisting of a body member and a foot member hinged together, the rear portion of said bead filling said groove and its exposed port-ion being dovetailed so as to produce shoulders liush with the inner face of said side bar; combined with sashes whose side rails are shaped to tit against said exposed portions and shoulders, and removable stops.

3. A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead consisting of a body member and a foot member hinged together, the rear portion of the bead filling said groove and its exposed portion being dovetailed so as to produce shoulders flush with the inner face of said side bar; combined with stops spaced from both sides of the bead with those faces next the bead undercut, and sashes whose side bars are dovetailed to lit the bead and stops.

4l. A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead comprising an upper section lixed in said groove and undercut at its lower end, and a removable lower section beveled at its upper end and consisting of a body member and a foot member hinged together, the rear portion of the bead filling said groove and its exposed portion being` dovetailed so as t0 produce shoulders flush with the inner face of said side bar; combined with stops spaced from both sides of the bead and also comprising fixed upper sections and removable lower sections with those faces next the bead undercut, and sashes whose side bars are dovetailed to fit between the bead and stops.

A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead comprising an upper section fixed in said groove and a lower section in two members hinged together with the rear portion filling said groove and the exposed portion dovetailed so as to produce shoulders facing outward, and stops having their faces next said bead undercut and themselves comprising fixed upper sections and removable lower sections; combined with sashes each of which has one side bar formed in upright sections hinged together at the inner corner of the outer section and the latter dovetailed to fit between one stop and the bead and against said shoulder, and additional means for holding the sashes in the frame.

6. A window frame having an upright groove in its side bar, and a parting bead with the rear portion filling said groove and the exposed portion dovetailed so as to produce shoulders facing outward, and stops having their faces next the bead undercut; combined with sashes each of which has one side bar formed in upright sections hinged together at the inner corner of the outer section and the latter dovetailed to fit between one stop and the bead and against said shoulder', and additional means for holding side bar formed in upright sections hinged together at the inner corner of the outer section and the latter dovetailed to it between one stop and the bead and against said shoulder, and additional means for holding the sashes in the frame consisting of hinges each having one leaf secured to said outer Aframe-section and its other leaf carrying a headed stud, and a slotted guide for said stud carried by the frame.

S. A Window frame, and its parting bead and stops removably attached thereto and having their contiguous faces undercut; combined with sashes each having one side bar formed in upright sections hinged together at the inner corner of a stop and the inner corner of its outer section, and the latter dovetailed to fit between the bead and a stop, hinges each having one leaf secured to said outer frame-section with the pintle at the outer corner thereof, headed studs carried by the other leaves of the hinges, and slotted guides in the frame.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PATRICK D. CORRIGAN.

Witnesses:

AUBERT J. CORRIGAN, MATTHEW REYNOLDS. 

